@yoshi thank you!!

It seems to me that there is an inverse relationship between the quality of leadership and the number of leadership books, frameworks and experts ...

Most of the people we hold as examples of great leadership weren't products of leadership development courses. Their leadership practices emerged and co-evolved.
So what qualifies someone to step into a leading role? Are our frameworks, requirements and development processes barriers that prevent the leadership we need from emerging?

Thoughts?

If you missed last week’s conference on leading in complexity, the recordings are available here - the lineup of speakers was excellent with a mix of practitioners and theorists. Take a look and share your highlights!

https://youtube.com/@Agiletoagility?feature=shares

@guidostevens I’d forgotten about that! Will look it up again. Tx!

Ursula K. Le Guin

#quotes #literature #books #imagination

Came across this nugget again this morning. Reminds me why I inform clients not to trust anyone promising to ‘simplify’ their complexity. What can be simplified is our over-complicated processes that emerge over time with knee-jerk reactivity to the complexity (vs intentional responding).
“Complicated, not complex. They are two very different things. Viewing the world through a lens of simplicity always seems to make things more complicated, but simultaneously less complex.”
- Tyson Yunkaporta

@liamjbennett I’m using the standard Mastodon app.

Complexity is entangled ... and the best way to approach it is to embrace messy tangles: "A tangle looks like a “mess” because many agents are empowered to do whatever conflicting things they want in a confined space of possibility, and none of them is strong enough to dominate the rest."

"...a good functional definition of a tangle: a way to keep chaos at bay with something other than order."

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2022/09/22/tangle-logic/

I've been pondering how language and grammar e.g. our use of nouns, informs a worldview of "thingness", not flow or relationships/interconnections. E.g. our relationship w water.
"The impulse to control water in ways that have contributed to many of our current troubles is not innately human. Instead, Indigenous and other land-based cultures around the world often view water not as a ‘what’ but a ‘who’ – a friend or relative, a collaborator in a reciprocal relationship." https://psyche.co/ideas/what-does-water-want-most-humans-seem-to-have-forgotten?

From tweeting to tooting … we really do live in a strange world. Hallo Mastodon!